Selected Publications  
Airways Dyna CT Bronchial Tree

Hierarchical Discriminative Framework for Detecting Tubular Structures in 3D Images
Dirk Breitenreicher, Michal Sofka, Stefan Britzen, and S.Kevin Zhou
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2013), Asilomar, CA, USA, 29 Jun-3 Jul 2013.
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Liver Before Liver After

A Splice-Guided Data Driven Interactive Editing
Noha El-Zehiry, Marie-Pierre Jolly, and Michal Sofka
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA, 7-11 Apr, 2013.
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PDT diagram PDT multiple landmarks

Progressive Data Transmission for Anatomical Landmark Detection in a Cloud
Michal Sofka, Kristof Ralovich, Jingdan Zhang, S.Kevin Zhou, and Dorin Comaniciu
Methods of Information in Medicine, Invited Paper, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 268-278, Jun. 2012.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

lung mesh lung segmentation

Multi-stage Learning for Robust Lung Segmentation in Challenging CT Volumes
Michal Sofka, Jens Wetzl, Neil Birkbeck, Jingdan Zhang, Timo Kohlberger, Jens Kaftan, Jérôme Declerck, and S.Kevin Zhou
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Toronto, Canada, 18-22 Sep. 2011.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website]

venous phase liver arterial phase liver

Automatic Contrast Phase Estimation in CT Volumes
Michal Sofka, Dijia Wu, Michael Suehling, David Liu, Christian Tietjen, Grzegorz Soza, and S.Kevin Zhou
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Toronto, Canada, 18-22 Sep. 2011.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website]

segmentation constraints segmented organs

Automatic Multi-Organ Segmentation Using Learning-based Segmentation and Level Set Optimization
Timo Kohlberger, Michal Sofka, Jingdan Zhang, Neil Birkbeck, Jens Wetzl, Jens Kaftan, Jérôme Declerck, and S.Kevin Zhou
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Toronto, Canada, 18-22 Sep. 2011.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website]

GPU diagram GPU liver segmentation

Fast Boosting Trees for Classification, Pose Detection, and Boundary Detection on a GPU
Neil Birkbeck, Michal Sofka, and S.Kevin Zhou
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision (in conjunction with IEEE CVPR) Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 20 Jun 2011.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website]

IDN concept IDN detection

Integrated Detection Network (IDN) for Pose and Boundary Estimation in Medical Images
Michal Sofka, Kristof Ralovich, Neil Birkbeck, Jingdan Zhang, and S.Kevin Zhou
Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011), Chicago, IL, USA, 30 Mar-2 Apr 2011.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website]

CAD server JPIP client

Progressive Data Transmission for Hierarchical Detection in a Cloud
Michal Sofka, Kristof Ralovich, Jingdan Zhang, S.Kevin Zhou, and Dorin Comaniciu
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on High-Performance Medical Image Computing for Image-Assisted Clinical Intervention and Decision-Making (HP-MICCAI 2010), Bejing, China, 22 Sep 2010. Best Paper Award.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website]

Left Atrium Detection order

Multiple Object Detection by Sequential Monte Carlo and Hierarchical Detection Network
Michal Sofka, Jingdan Zhang, S. Kevin Zhou, and Dorin Comaniciu
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, CA, 13-18 June 2010.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website]

Lung nodule (initial) Lung nodule (follow-up)

Location Registration and Recognition (LRR) for Serial Analysis of Nodules in Lung CT Scans
Michal Sofka and Charles V. Stewart
In Medical Image Analysis, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 407-428, Jun. 2010.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [code] [publisher]

Lung nodule (moving) Lung nodule (fixed

Location Registration and Recognition (LRR) for Longitudinal Evaluation of Corresponding Regions in CT Volumes
Michal Sofka and Charles V. Stewart
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 2, pp. 989-997, New York, NY, 6-10 Sep. 2008.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [code] [publisher]

Vessel landmarks Retinal mosaic

Automated Retinal Image Analysis over the Internet
Chia-Ling Tsai, Benjamin Madore, Matthew Leotta, Michal Sofka, Gehua Yang, Anna Majerovics, Howard L. Tanenbaum, Charles V. Stewart, and Badrinath Roysam
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 480-487, July 2008.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Brain T1 MRI keypoints Brain T2 MRI keypoints

Keypoint Descriptors for Matching Across Multiple Image Modalities and Non-linear Intensity Variations
Avi Kelman, Michal Sofka, and Charles V. Stewart
Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Image Registration and Fusion (in conjunction with IEEE CVPR), Minneapolis, MN, 23 June 2007.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Bunny 090 ear-back, initialization Bunny 090 ear-back, CDC aligned

Simultaneous Covariance Driven Correspondence (CDC) and Transformation Estimation in the Expectation Maximization Framework
Michal Sofka, Gehua Yang, and Charles V. Stewart
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, MN, 18-23 June 2007.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Thin and low contrast vessels LRV tracing

Retinal Vessel Centerline Extraction Using Multiscale Matched Filters, Confidence and Edge Measures
Michal Sofka and Charles V. Stewart
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 1531-1546, Dec. 2006.
[pdf with erratum] [bibtex] [website] [binaries] [publisher and erratum]

Winter summer registration pair EO IR registration pair

Registration of challenging image pairs: initialization, estimation, and decision
Gehua Yang, Charles V. Stewart, Michal Sofka, and Chia-Ling Tsai
IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 1973-1989, Nov. 2007.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Retinal mosaic with vessels Lung CT registered

A Correspondence-Based Software Toolkit for Image Registration
Chia-Ling Tsai, Charles V. Stewart, Amitha Perera, Ying-Lin Lee, Gehua Yang, and Michal Sofka
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 3972-3977, 2006.
[pdf] [bibtex] [publisher]

Images with differences Registered images with differences

Automatic robust image registration system: Initialization, estimation, and decision
Gehua Yang, Charles V. Stewart, Michal Sofka, and Chia-Ling Tsai
Proceedings of the IEEE International conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), pp. 23-31, 2006.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Carotid MRA Full body MR Angiogram

Feature-Based Composing for 3D MR Angiography Images
Li Zhang, Michal Sofka, and Ulf Schaefer
Invention Disclosure 2004E13782US filed as provisional Patent Application 2004P14413US on August 24, 2004. Patent holder: Siemens Corporate Research.
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Spine MRI Full body MRI

A Validation Scheme For Composing Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI)
Michal Sofka, Li Zhang, and Ulf Schaefer
Invention Disclosure 2004E13778US filed as provisional Patent Application 2004P14418US on August 24, 2004. Patent holder: Siemens Corporate Research.
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Archeological mosaic Segmentation of archeological mosaic

Archeological mosaic image indexing by color-based segmentation and skeleton extraction
Michal Sofka, Rachid Benslimane, Ludovic Macaire, Michael Rudko and Jack-Gérard Postaire
Proceedings of the second IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp 327–331, Marrakesh (Marocco), 2002.
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